Asam pedas is a popular dish among Malays. We often eat this at least once in a week. You can use fish, chicken or beef. This time I used mackerel. So this is my way of cooking asam pedas..
Ingredients:
~ 1/2 kg mackerel
~ 10 dried chilles, remove seeds boil 5 minutes. This step is to make sure the chillies well cooked to prevent some type of chillies' bad smell. Drained.*
~ 1 large onion*
~ 4 garlic cloves*
~ 1 inch ginger*
~ 1 cm turmeric*
~ 1 inch belacan (dried shrimp paste)*
~ 1/2 tsp black pepper*
~ 1 cup of tamarind juice
~ Salt & sugar to taste
~ A handful of laksa leaves
Methods
~ Grind all *. Heat pan with some oil. Fry the mixture until its cook. To know whether it's cooked already, make sure there is oil come out from the mixture. In this stage means all of the water has evaporated and the mixture is cooked.
~ Pour in tamarind juice, add some water to get concentration you want. Bring to boil.
~ Put in the fish, laksa leaves, salt & sugar to taste.
~ Turn off heat when the fish cooked, this may take about 3-4 minutes.
Other condiments you may add in:
~ Pineapple
~ Pickle sawi (i don't know what sawi in english)
~ Ginger bud
Side dish to be eaten with asam pedas (my suggestion)
~ Kangkong goreng belacan (stir fried water spinach with dried shrimp paste)
~ Telur dadar (omelet malay way)
~ Kicap (sweet soya sauce)
Oh..writing this makes my stomach singing~~~~~
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